Submission + - Privatization's effect on access to information
Knutsi writes: "The Federation of American Scientists' blog Secrecy News has an interesting entry on how privatization can affect access to research materiall.
The blog tells how a Harvard researcher failed to get access that would have been grated in the past. Follow ups, here and here."Los Alamos National Laboratory will no longer permit historians and other researchers to have access to its archival records because Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the private contractor that now operates the Lab, says it has "no policy in place" that would allow such access.
